There have been news about accidents occurring in our express roads in different parts of the country with fatal results and casualties. No less than eighteen men, two women and a female child died in an accident which occurred along the Abuja-Lokoja Road on Friday morning. The Kogi State Sector Commander of the Federal Road […]
Continue ReadingRussia has offered to send an Alsatian puppy to France in a gesture of solidarity after a police dog was killed during a raid on jihadists linked to the Paris attacks. Russia’s interior minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said he had written to his French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve offering to send a puppy named Dobrynya to replace […]
Continue ReadingDavid Spisak, Jr. was diagnosed to have leukemia at just 2 years old. Today, six years later, the Chesapeake, Virginia boy has had two bone marrow transplants and was diagnosed with cancer for the fourth time in March. Although doctors told David’s parents the boy would likely live only four to six weeks without treatment, […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the terror attack in Paris and threats to bomb the US, World leaders have unanimously agreed to fight ISIS together which is now being described as ‘a global & unprecedented threat to international peace and security’. The UN Security Council which met yesterday November 20, called on countries to take ‘all necessary measures’ to […]
Continue ReadingKogi gubernatorial election slated for today (Saturday) is underway, there are 21 candidates and their political parties vying to take over power in the state. Below is a list of all the candidates. The governorship candidates and their political parties are as follows: Isah Yakubu Kamaldeen, AA Dickson F. Fred, Accord Ukenya Musa, ACD Michael […]
Continue ReadingThe Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Friday disowned the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and his cohorts in their struggle for the state of Biafra. The Chairman, Forum of State Presidents of Ohanaeze in the seven Igbo –speaking states, in Awka, Dr. Chris Eluomunoh, said no right thinking person would support what he called the madness of […]
Continue ReadingA statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina yesterday stated that President Muhammadu Buhari will leave for Tehran, Iranian capital to participate in the 3rd Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum, GECF, which opens on Monday. The statement read: “President Buhari and the leaders of Iran, Russia, Qatar, the Netherlands, […]
Continue ReadingTragedy struck as nine persons died on Friday in Asaba, Delta state, when a Dangote truck laden with cement ran over a bus with 18 passengers. The accident occurred on the Benin-Asaba highway. The sector commander of Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Delta State, Mr Rindom Kumven, said the speeding truck coming from Benin, crushed three other […]
Continue ReadingNot less than 27 persons were reported killed on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako with at least 170 people inside, many of them foreigners. Jihadist group Al Mourabitoun, allied to al Qaeda and based in the deserts of northern Mali, has claimed responsibility for the attack in a […]
Continue ReadingThe Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, on Thursday raised alarm over an alleged plot by Governor Rauf Aregbesola, to deploy 15,000 persons to Kogi State with the intent of rigging the elections. A statement on Thursday by the party’s spokesperson, Diran Odeyemi, 15,000 APC members from Osun State had been mobilized and would […]
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